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Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola...

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

By Associated Press, Associated Press | 03.21.2006

SEOUL _ The scientist who stunned the medical world with claims that he had created the first cloned human embryos...

By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian | 03.18.2006
When a genetic testing kit promising to predict a baby's gender with 99.9% accuracy five weeks after conception was launched...
By Jim Hopkins, USA Today | 03.16.2006
BERKELEY, Calif. _ Five years after a trade group tried reining them in, fertility clinics and brokers are bidding up...
By Jamie Talan, Newsday | 03.13.2006
Why do some scientists lie?

While the recent scandal involving the now discredited research of South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk...
By By Elizabeth Weil, New York Times Magazine | 03.12.2006
Like most American women who give birth to a severely handicapped child, Donna Branca became pregnant with A.J. well before...
By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 03.11.2006
HYEONI KIM believed. He had been paralysed at just 8 years old when he was hit by a car on...
By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.09.2006

State lawmakers on Wednesday ordered an audit of the institute and committee created to spend $7 billion of voter-approved bonds...

By By Kwon Ji young, The Korean Herald | 03.08.2006
U.S. lawmakers debated the fallout from Hwang Woo suk's fraudulent stem cell research on Tuesday afternoon, while Korean prosecutors fruitlessly...